"¿Tu papá está enojado contigo?"

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Contigo is with you and a ti is at you. Both can essentially mean the same but because of the people that wish to make learning a new language harder for the rest of us, DL has been made to accept contigo to mean at you instead of with you as it actually means.

Thanks for the reply and the link. However, the info in the link deals with nouns and my question was about este vs. esta -- since padre is masculine, I was confused why it is the feminine esta as opposed to the masculine este.

Languages do change over time. I remember that as well, but the dictionaries don’t back that up anymore. Catholic school was designed to prepare everyone for university and tried to get us to use the most formal language possible. Duolingo allows most commonly used forms as well.

“Mad at” means “angry with”. We don’t say
“mad for” in the USA at least not where I am from. We do say someone is “mad about someone”, which means they are “crazy about someone” which means they are infatuated with that person and that could cause a person to do too much for that person or worry about that person too much, but mostly it means that you love that person to a foolish extreme or at least you think you are in love. We also say that someone is “madly in love with someone.” If you are “mad about something”, then you are angry about something.

Yes, a lot of people were amused by that correction, but others remembered that children also use this site and would prefer that even if it were to be accepted that maybe it is not the best translation to teach the children. Scroll up and you will see other people’s reactions.

That is because “tu” means “your” not “you” which would have had an accent “tú”. “You” would have been wrong. This is “Your dad is mad at you?”, but it is more common in English to say “Is your dad mad at you?” Of course “Is your dad angry with you?” would be even better, but I don’t know if they added that version to the database yet.

I have a question which keeps coming up in this lesson. Can somebody help me please? I am being introduced to the word "mama" and "papa". Could someone explain when I should use these words instead of "madré" and "padre"? Are the former used by children when referring to their parents and the latter by adults?